How to Type the Apple Logo on Mac OS X

Want to type the Apple Logo with your Mac keyboard? The Apple logo  is actually a special character available to type rather easily from a keyboard in OS X.

This is a fun little typing trick that looks pretty cool too, here’s what it looks like typed out: 

Shown larger, it’s the exact Apple logo as seen here:



So how do you do type the Apple character out with nothing but your Mac keyboard? You’ll need to hit a keyboard combination sequence to write it out, it’s easy to remember too.

Option+Shift+K will type the Apple logo as so: 

The  logo renders as visible on any Mac with OS X, or any iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch with iOS too.

The logo will not display properly to a Windows user and unsupported operating systems or browsers may render the logo as a simple square, so don’t be surprised if it looks like something totally different on another computer or smartphone. Nonetheless, on a Mac you will see the Apple logo in all it’s glory.

                       

What about typing the Apple Logo with other keyboards?

The above trick covers writing out the  logo with a US QWERTY keyboard, but many of our wonderful international users have left comments below for how to type the Apple logo on various world keyboards and different keyboard layouts. Thank you to our readers for supplying this information!

The Alt + Shift + K makes the degrees symbol on the Norwegian keyboard (º). You have to mention which keyboard you are using! They’re all different and not everyone is using the same one around the world 😉

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Uhm, no it has not, the ability to type the  Apple logo works in all versions of Mac OS X. Lance, I’m typing this on an unreleased version of OS X right now,  can you explain that? Nope, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Type the Apple logo on any version of OS X Shift Option K 